Endless Songkran? Soft in the head committee

[samtam]

 

 

 

 

[samtam]

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Other provinces will be asked to hold water fight at different times of the month so the whole month of April will be have celebration somewhere.

 

What kind of living hell are they proposing? Is this to drive away tourists?

[NoDisplayName]

Hub of bad idears.

[Liverpool Lou]

12 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

Hub of bad idears.

Hub of bad spelling, my (i)dear!

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

14 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

Hub of bad idears.

Hub of bad spelling, my (i)dear!

Before the "grammar police" inquisitors get out of bed and start their hammering, notice the exclamation mark indicating that my comment was a tongue-in-cheek, leg-pull.

[DonniePeverley]

Stupid beyond belief.

 

Desperation too. 

 

What idiotic schemes will they think of next ?

 

Why not extend Christmas till January ? 

 

Why  not turn the clocks back at midnight by 6 hours, so you can have peak time all over again ? 

 

Why not pay tourists to come ? 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lucky Bones]

.....and she never failed a year of schooling so we assume she is somewhat bright?🙃🙃

[LALes]

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

[boloaf]

It seems to last practically the whole month in Pattaya district as it is. I'm sure her suggested extension would make little difference here.

[shackleton]

Well I thought it could not get worse 

First extending the drinking hours to 0400hrs in the main Tourist areas 🤑

Now on about a Songkran celebration for a month so tourists can come and throw water over each other in different parts of the Country 

Talk about water conservation 😱

[PETERTHEEATER]

19 hours ago, samtam said:

 

What kind of living hell are they proposing? Is this to drive away tourists?

That's why inthe OP X message it is renamed 'World Warer Festival'. Every participant gets to battle with non-local enemies.

[findlay13]

We're not in Kansas anymore Toto

[findlay13]

Well ,not opening Shopping Malls  until 10 am , closing Service stations at midnight  and not selling alcohol between 2pm and 5 pm [I'm not sure of the times] were all Shinawatra ideas and look how well they worked. So why not a month long Songkran ?

[samtam]

3 minutes ago, findlay13 said:

Well ,not opening Shopping Malls  until 10 am , closing Service stations at midnight  and not selling alcohol between 2pm and 5 pm [I'm not sure of the times] were all Shinawatra ideas and look how well they worked. So why not a month long Songkran ?

Alcohol sale hours in Thailand are 11:00 – 14:00 and 17:00 – 24:00... so that minors can't buy alcohol after they come out of school, as clearly minors don't carry ID cards in Thailand.

[Chris Daley]

It's amazing that there are people on here who dislike a water fight.  It must be a sad day when a water pistol offends you.  Do you also hate spikey hair and yo-yos?  How many footballs have you popped this week?

[BenStark]

4 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

It's amazing that there are people on here who dislike a water fight.  It must be a sad day when a water pistol offends you.  Do you also hate spikey hair and yo-yos?  How many footballs have you popped this week?

 

So you enjoy getting thrown water (including the ice cubes) at every day for a month, and getting talking powder in your eyes?

 

You ever been to Thailand during Songkran?

[Tropicalevo]

21 hours ago, samtam said:

 

What kind of living hell are they proposing? Is this to drive away tourists?

Not sure how to tell the doom and gloom folk here, but tourists (that I interact with) LOVE Songkhran and the water fights.

[Tropicalevo]

22 minutes ago, findlay13 said:

not selling alcohol between 2pm and 5 pm [I'm not sure of the times] were all Shinawatra ideas

The alcohol laws re hours, were in place well before Thaksin's time.

[Irish star]

35 minutes ago, findlay13 said:

Well ,not opening Shopping Malls  until 10 am , closing Service stations at midnight  and not selling alcohol between 2pm and 5 pm [I'm not sure of the times] were all Shinawatra ideas and look how well they worked. So why not a month long Songkran ?

11:00 in Pattaya 

[Irish star]

32 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

It's amazing that there are people on here who dislike a water fight.  It must be a sad day when a water pistol offends you.  Do you also hate spikey hair and yo-yos?  How many footballs have you popped this week?

Where’s the water source from , I don’t want bacteria in my eyes ffs 

[Surasak]

4 hours ago, Lucky Bones said:

.....and she never failed a year of schooling so we assume she is somewhat bright?🙃🙃

You mean she could out shine a TOC H Lamp!?

[Surasak]

45 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

It's amazing that there are people on here who dislike a water fight.  It must be a sad day when a water pistol offends you.  Do you also hate spikey hair and yo-yos?  How many footballs have you popped this week?

It is not a dislike of the water fight so much, as the idiots who are throwing the water!

[StayinThailand2much]

45 minutes ago, BenStark said:

So you enjoy getting thrown water (including the ice cubes) at every day for a month, and getting talking powder in your eyes?

 

Some people seem to enjoy being showered all day with filthy Klong water, and having talcum powder smeared deep into their ear (as happened to me once)...

[newnative]

Very bad idea.  It's already way too long.

[Lucky Bones]

2 hours ago, Surasak said:

You mean she could out shine a TOC H Lamp!?

Had to google that one. Fair call.🙃🙃

[Andycoops]

Idiocy at it's supreme best.

I've avoided Pattaya for many years because of the 10 day nam fest and remained in by Isaan retreat where the event is celebrated on the 3 actual days of the Songkran festival and in a civilised manner.

[BillyBloggs]

Yeah dont get caught on the inside part of the road at Chaing Mai as all the water is pulled from the moat and that stuff can make you very sick.

[Grumpy one]

23 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Hub of bad spelling, my (i)dear!

She got it right, daddy wants a war to go on and on, just like his death bed illness

[findlay13]

21 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

The alcohol laws re hours, were in place well before Thaksin's time.

Correct  but I remember it being enforced under Taksin 

[findlay13]

7 hours ago, Andycoops said:

Idiocy at it's supreme best.

I've avoided Pattaya for many years because of the 10 day nam fest and remained in by Isaan retreat where the event is celebrated on the 3 actual days of the Songkran festival and in a civilised manner.

The first year I came to LOS I had this in Pattaya.I was renting bike bikes and at the back of Jomtien they nearly killed me when I got a  bucket of water in the face from a pick up while riding.I stayed up .Parked the bike for 10 days  and never went back to Pattaya during Songkran again. Esan has succumbed to the uncivilized  water throwing idiots but  as you say only for three days thankfully.